Nigeria last month handed down a long prison term, in absentia, to the Indian owner of a vessel suspected of carrying stolen crude—moving its efforts to cut oil smuggling to target foreign players increasingly implicated in the trade. Read More »

Last fall, Canadian oil producer Husky Energy Inc. sent a batch of crude on a journey to India. It was just a drop in a sea of global oil transactions, but a step toward reshaping North American energy trading. Read More »

ROBERT RAPIER: Per unit of energy produced, coal emits substantially more carbon dioxide than oil or natural gas.

A 2012 paper by Neil C. Swart and Andrew J. Weaver that was published in “Nature Climate Change” quantified the relative potential warming contributions of various fossil fuel resources. Their paper shows that according to computer models, the average global temperature could increase by nearly 19°C if all of the world’s fossil-fuel resource was burned and converted into carbon dioxide. But a whopping 80% of that potential warming is because of the world’s coal resource. (Note that a “resource” includes the entire deposit, while the reserve is a much smaller subset that is technically and economically recoverable). Read More »

Barmer has been transformed since crude oil was discovered there in 2004. On Sunday its residents will go to the polls in a battle that reflects the political face-off on the national stage. Read More »

A landmark agreement between major world powers and Tehran at the weekend could help India access more crude oil from the Middle Eastern nation, but a system developed in New Delhi to bypass U.S. sanctions on Iranian exports may suffer. Read More »

After coming up with the bright idea of shuttering gasoline stations at night, Indian oil minister Veerappa Moily has come up with an even slicker plan to conserve oil. He plans to take public transportation to work once a week starting next month. Read More »

India’s oil minister on Tuesday tried to play down embarrassment caused by the state-owned Oil & Gas Corp.’s premature announcement of multi-billion dollar deal to buy a stake in a gas field in Mozambique. Read More »

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